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Alex Rodriguez, Bud Selig, among attendees at Paramus service for Michael Weiner

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MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner pictured at the All Star Game at Citi Field in July. Weiner died Thursday, 15 months after announcing he had an inoperable brain tumor.
(John Munson/The Star-Ledger)

PARAMUS — Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez were among hundreds of mourners who attended the memorial service Sunday for Michael Weiner, the late executive director of the league's Player's Association, the New York Daily News reported.

Several of the mourners wore Chuck Taylor high-top sneakers at the service in honor of Weiner's penchant for wearing the basketball shoes.

Weiner, credited with forging an era of labor peace in baseball, died Thursday at his home in Mansfield Township, of an inoperable brain tumor. He was 51.

Weiner continued to commute to his New York office and baseball cities around the country to meet with the athletes he represented even after being confined to a wheelchair. He also raised millions in cancer research.

Rodriguez was the only active player and the only member of the Yankee organization to pay his respects. He did not cross paths with Selig, who is involved in an arbitration battle with the third baseman over a 211-game drug suspension.